An international team led by scientists at the University of Washington have used DNA to identify three major networks responsible for smuggling large shipments of ivory out of Africa.

Congratulations to UW Biostatistics alum Aasthaa Bansal (MS ’08, PhD ’11) on her NIH Merit Award! She's currently an assistant professor with the UW School of Pharmacy.

UW Biostat alum Michael Kosorok (MS ’91, PhD ’91) is a distinguished professor at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and chair of its Department of Biostatistics. In this article, he discusses how artificial intelligence could soon play a critical role in medical care. “What I’m interested in my research is how we can use AI to make good decisions in medicine, so for example, whether to give a patient drug A or drug B,” said Kosorok.

There is a new, innovative approach to dengue vaccine development, according to a paper published Aug. 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington School of Public Health led the study.